Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-24
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WAsHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
PRESIDENT Cleveland has sent substan-
1ial contribution to the Hendricks Monu-
ment Association.
PUBLIC PRINTER BENEDICT has discharged
forty-three employees of the Government
printing Office, including thirty three COM
posltors, proof-readers and copy holders,
and five book-binders and five girl assist
ants. The reason assigned for the dis
missals was that reduction OF expense was
necessary.
GENERAL MILES has received telegram
announcing the death of Lieutenant Mott,
Tenth cavalry, at San Carlos reservation.
Arizona, where he had been assisting Cap
tain Pierce, the agent, in the division Of
lands. Mott was stabbed to death by a
young Apache chief who escaped.
ID. LYNCH PRINGLE, of South Carolina,
has been sent as Consul General to Con-
stantinople.
LIEUTENANT J. S. POWELL, of the Signal
Corps, died in Washington recently from
Boftening Of the brain.
IT is stated on good authority that the
State Department has never contemplated
the recall OF Judge Manning, Minister to
Mexico, nor has his resignation been
1epdered.
THE total number Of different military or
CARNATIONS corresponding at this time with
national drill at Washington is 226.
AT his own request the Department Of
State has transferred Rule Letcher, of Mis-
souri,, Consul at Rio Grande De Sui, Brazil,
20 the vacant Consulate at Ascencion, Para
quay.
g WORK is to be resumed at once. on the
cruisers Chicago, Boston and Atlanta, it
having been decided that there are funds
available for the use OF the Navy Depart
ment in this line.
a THE eighteenth annual reunion Of the So
ciety Of the Army of the Cumberland will
be held in Washington May IL and 12, when
the statue OF General Garfield will be IN
yelled.
eACTING SECRETARY FAIRCHILD with the
Presidents approval. has design ated San
Francisco as a port from which imported
merchandise may be shipped in bond in
dransit through the United States to and
from the British possessions in North
America.
A NUMBER of suspicious looking men have
lately been making frequent visits to the
money vaults Of the United States Treas
ury Department during the hours allowed
Tor pubic inspection. Some of them have
been notified that they must not come again,
and the officers in charge of the vaults
have been instructed to keep a sharp look
out on visitors for the future.
THE President has appointed G. n. j.
Consul General of the United States to
Liberia; James r. Hosmer, New York,
Secretary of Legation in Central Ameri-
can States and Consul General of the
Emitted States at Guatemala.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT BELL left Wash
ington on the 10th for Detroit, Mich, on
business connected with the construction of
q new. public building in that city, for which
Congress appropriated 100000. From De-
troit he will go to Chicago to confer with
the authorities there in regard to the build
ing Of appraisers stores and repairing the
custom house.
APPLICATION was made to the Treasury
Department recently for the free entry
at San Francisco of a wooden 'ioss' for a
Chinese joss house there. 1t was proposed
70 bring it IN free of duty as an ''image and
regalia for the use of religious associations"
The god and rcgalia and paraphernalia when
put together will make figure $50 feet
long, composed of wood, cloth, paper, tinsel
and metal.
TuE entire Government three per cent loan
will probably be extinguished by June 1.
THE EAST.
IN the New York Legislature appropriate
resolutions were passed relative to the
death of Mr.. Beecher and q number of
eulogies were delivered.
FIVE crowded cars won't through bridge
ON the Boston & Providence railroad near
Boston. on the morning Of the 18th. The
accident proved q terrible one, some thirty
three persons being killed and fifty wound
cd. The victims were shockingly mangled.
THE Pennsylvania House Congressional
Apportlonment Committee recently agreed
20 give Philadelphia six districts, gain of
one. A Philadelphia reapportionment was
also agreed upon, making all of the six
districts Republican, thus shutting Mr..
Randall out.
THE jury in the Denmead case az New
Brunswick, N. J., rendered the following
verdict: 1--WE find that Robert Denmead
and Cornelia Denmead came to their
deaths Coates unknown to us) at their late
residence on Commercial avenue, from nat
ural causes, FASTENED probably by not hay
ing had proper medical attendance during
their late sickness"
AT the meeting of the United States
Veterinary Association III Philadelphia re-
Gently, the members took strong stand
against incubation for pleuro- pneumonia
THE large grocery building of Miller
Greiper & Co., Buffalo, N. Y, was destroyed
by fire on the 18th. Loss about $S0o, 900; in
Surance, $3.50, 600
THE failure of Peele, HubbeI & Co., of
Manila, probably the largest house in the
sugar trade of the Philippines, was an
nounced by cable recently, and caused great
excitement IN the trade at New York.
THE morocco factory of E. A. Smith &
Co, Philadelphia, was closed by the sheriff
recently. Liabilities, $S74, 600: assets, $780,
600
CAPITAL punishment has been abolished
IN Maine, life. Imprisonment being substi-
tuted.
The south-bound passenger train on the
Elmira, Cortland & Northern railroad, con-
sisting of engine and three cars, was
wrecked the 10th, near Elmira, N. Y.
About fifteen persons were more or less in
5ured. The accident was caused by a spread
ing rail
THE schedule in the assignment Of Mar
shall, Lefferts & Co., of New York, show
liabilities, $175, S25; contingent liabilities,
noAo nl.Ar, L..